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...This is Edwards' message to caucus-goers distilled. There is no talk of foreign policy. No mention of the war in Iraq. Nothing on Pakistan and the assassination of Benazir Bhutto or illegal immigration. He hardly even mentions health care or education. Edwards' final message is simple: "to make absolutely certain that our kids have a better life than we had. That's what this is all about, at the end of the day, to live up to our responsibility, to live up to what our folks did for us," Edwards said in a two-minute speech, his voice breaking...
...Edwards is wasting no time in getting his point across. On the eve of the caucus, he is in the midst of a 36-hour barnstorm across Iowa that he is calling the "Marathon for the Middle Class." Along the way, he is holding 16 events all focused on this central idea that he is the only candidate with enough fight to take on the greedy lobbyists that are stealing America's future...
...Huckabee headquarters Monday, a volunteer put a caller on hold and shouted across the room. "She said she is undecided between Romney and Huckabee, and Romney is knocking on her door to help her to the caucus. Do we do that...
...final days before the caucus were similarly planned for maximum media exposure - single events in eastern and western Iowa media markets, a party with Chuck Norris in Des Moines, and a Wednesday night appearance on the Tonight Show, even though Jay Leno's studios are located more than 1,500 miles away, as the crow flies. It's a strategy that takes sober account of the fact that Romney has a huge advantage in paid advertising on television, radio and person-to-person contact...
...knows if Huckabee's message or Saltsman's strategy will be enough to pull off an upset victory caucus night - not the political reporters, not the consultants and not the pollsters, who keep releasing data that cumulatively shows a dead heat. And the truth be told, even Saltsman, the architect, no longer has much control over the outcome at Thursday night's caucuses. Most of the pieces have already been played. So he grows his beard, fingers his pinky ring, and barely sleeps. "On Friday," he calls out, "you can write that either I am a genius, or an idiot...